Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Sunday, January 05, 2003
Making Online Information Accessible to Students with Disabilities, Part II - Janna Siegel Robertson and James Wallace Harris, Technology Source

...A previous article in The Technology Source by the first author (Robertson, 2002) offers a preliminary overview of the Section 508 guidelines that were adopted in June 2001, and includes links to technical information for each guideline (see Exhibit 1). As a further resource for Web site developers and designers, this follow-up article focuses more closely on the major HTML coding techniques used when making Web pages and online courses accessible to students with disabilities. The following examples of accessibility features are not difficult for most Web authors to incorporate into their Web pages. With a few adaptations, Web page developers can make online information accessible to students with cognitive, sensory, or motor disabilities.

 



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